Anthropology
Daniel Haun (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology & Universität Leipzig)
Rethinking Cognitive Uniqueness: A Comparative Cultural Psychology of the Human Mind
What makes human cognition unique? In this talk, I revisit an ambition already present in Wundt’s vision of psychology: to understand the human mind through coordinated evidence from child development, cross-cultural variation, and species comparison. I argue that uniquely human cognition cannot be understood from any one of these perspectives alone. A Comparative Cultural Psychology […]